Long hair -- always classic
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Topic: Long hair -- always classic
Posted By: Jennifer
Subject: Long hair -- always classic
Date Posted: June 10 2003 at 10:23am
We've all read in fashion magazines that if you've had the same style of hair for more than five years, it's time for a change. My personal opinion is this: if the style is a very dated style, then yes, it's probably time for a change, so you don't look as if you are stuck in a timewarp. But if you have a classic style (that never goes out of style....), why mess with success?
I graduated from high school in the 1980s. However, I could show you my senior picture and tell you that it was taken last month, and it would be totally plausible. I wore a blue turtleneck with pendant necklace and wore my hair half-way down my back. At that time, I wore no bangs and the hair was slightly wavy. The way some long hair is styled can look very dated, but my hair then did not look from a certain time period.
My hair is much, much wavier now (I've also read that time tends to do this to hair, even straight hair), and I wear bangs. But I have a feeling that twenty years from now, I can look at pictures taken today and have the reaction.
There's nothing wrong with current trends of hairstyles and haircuts. But, they must be kept up-to-date to stay fresh.
Long hair, in my opinion, is (almost) always a very classy look that defies being stuck in any timewarp.
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: June 10 2003 at 9:04pm
"New" haircuts tend to "obsolete" yesterday's "new" haircuts. After enough iterations of "new" haircuts, those from many yesterdays ago do seem to look peculiar.
I agree with you, Jennifer. Long hair is a timeless classic.
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Posted By: LetGoMommyHair
Date Posted: June 11 2003 at 6:10am
Jennifer,
About 5 years ago, I took a picture of me when I was 10 years old to work. When I showed people, they said I looked the same that day as I did when I was 10!
:-)
Long hair then, long hair now....with a stint of short hair from age 16 till ? and then again in my 20's when I worked in a hair salon!
When I was 16, convinced that my hair would be "curly" if I cut it because it was wavy with the long hair "weighing it down", I went from long long long hair to a bob! It was very difficult to style my very straight hair.
Long hair is so easy to care for compared to any style!
Does anyone else think that men have earlier balding problems than women because they are usually keeping short hair?
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LetGo...sweetie...let go of mommy's hair...
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Posted By: Jennifer
Date Posted: June 11 2003 at 8:06am
>>>>Does anyone else think that men have earlier balding problems than women because they are usually keeping short hair?
Hair growth is, in part, determined by hormones. How could cutting the hair affect what happens inside the head? If hair growth were affected by cutting it, there would have to be some sort of communication between the hair on the outside of the head and the hair on the inside of the head. If that were the case, it would hurt whenever you cut your hair!
If I'm not mistaken, mpb (male pattern baldness) is partially caused by testosterone, which means that, although it can occur with women, it occurs far more often with men because they have a lot more testosterone than we do!
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Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: July 19 2003 at 11:52pm
>>>>Does anyone else think that men have earlier balding problems than women because they are usually keeping short hair?
No, thats pure genetics. In fact women with long hair that gets pulled alot might be more likely to have a bald spot or thinning hair than a woman with short cut hair or a man with good hair genes.
For men, alas, the hair is a genetic problem.
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